• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2011.02a
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• pp.213-213
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• 2011

DC arc plasmatron is powerful plasma source to apply etching and texturing processing. Even though DC arc plasmatron has many advantages, it is difficult to apply an industry due to the small applied area. To increase an effective processing area, we suggest a DC-RF hybrid plasma system. The DC-RF hybrid plasma system was designed and made. This system consists of a DC arc plasmatron, RF parts, reaction chamber, power feeder, gas control system and vacuum system. To investigate a DC-RF hybrid plasma, we used a Langmuir probe, OES (Optical emission spectroscopy), infrared (IR) light camera. For RF matching, PSIM software was used to simulate a current of an impedance coil. The results of Langmuir probe measurements, we obtain a homogeneous plasma density and electron temperature those are about $1{\times}1010$ #/cm3 and 1~4 eV. The DC-RF hybrid plasma source is applied for plasma etching experimental, and we obtain an etching rate of 10 ${\mu}m$/min. through a 90 mm of reaction chamber diameter.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2001.02a
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• pp.146-146
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• 2001

• Tribology and Lubricants
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• v.38 no.3
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• pp.101-108
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• 2022

The structure and properties of tetrahedral amorphous carbon (ta-C) coatings depend on the main process parameters and bending angles of the magnetic field filter used in the filtered cathodic vacuum arc (FCVA). During the process, it is possible to effectively control the plasma flux of carbon ions incident on the substrate by controlling the arc discharge current, thereby influencing the mechanical properties of the coating film. Furthermore, we can control the size and amount of large particles mixed during carbon film formation while conforming with the bending angle of the mechanical filter mounted on the FCVA; therefore, it also influences the mechanical properties. In this study, we consider tribological characteristics for filtered bending angles of 45° and 90° as a function of arc discharge currents of 60 and 100 A, respectively. Experiment results indicate that the frictional behavior of the ta-C coating film is independent of the bending angle of the filter. However, its sliding wear behavior significantly changes according to the bending angle of the FCVA filter, unlike the effect of the discharge current. Further, upon changing the bending angle from 45° to 90°, abrasive wear gets accelerated, thereby changing the size and mixing amount of macro particles inside the coating film.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 1999.02a
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• pp.102-102
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• 1999

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2001.11a
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• pp.186-188
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• 2001

Recently, the vacuum interrupters have been most widely used in medium voltage level. In the vacuum circuit breaker the most influential part is vacuum interrupter. By performing the precise electromagnetic analysis of the interrupter, we increase the capability of large current interruption. In this paper, diffuse arc and constricted arc are modeled to perform 3D electromagnetic analysis, and also flux distributions and electromagnetic force is calculated at the contacts' separation. It is expected these results will be used importantly in developing the new vacuum interrupters.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2008.04c
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• pp.245-246
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• 2008

In this paper we calculated and compared the arc driving force of two spiral-tyre vacuum interrupter electrode models which have 3petals and 4petals respectively by means of commercial finite element method software Maxwell 3D. As a result we can find that the more petals the electrode has, the stronger arc driving force was generated. This simulation method can contribute to optimization of spiral-type electrode designs in a view of arc driving force.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2008.07a
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• pp.1197-1198
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• 2008

There have been few papers using finite element method(FEM) to analyze arc driving force for spiral type vacuum interrupter electrode up to date while there have been many papers dealing with AMF type electrode by means of FEM. AMF analysis is very important in AMF type electrode because it has proportional relation with effective area which means the area of magnetic flux density above critical magnetic flux density to diffuse arc. In the same manner, arc driving force is an important factor to drive arc by Lorentz force. In this paper two models were calculated and compared by using commercial FEM software Maxwell 3D.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2014.02a
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• pp.349-349
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• 2014

ITO는 결정질 실리콘 태양전지의 anti-reflection coating (ARC) 층으로써 적합한 물질이다. ARC layer로써 구조적, 전기적 그리고 광학적 최적 조건의 특성을 얻기 위해는 높은 figure of merit(FOM)를 가져야 하고 결정방향 제어를 해야 한다. 본 연구에서는 결정질 실리콘 태양전지에 가장 적합한 ITO ARC layer의 특성 찾기 위해 Radio frequency magnetron sputter를 이용하여 공정 조건가변 실험을 진행 하였으며 높은 FOM을 갖는 ITO 반사방지막을 shallow emitter형 결정질 실리콘 태양전지에 적용하였으며 ITO 박막은 shallow emitter층과 완벽한 ohmic 접합을 이루었다. ITO ARC layer를 적용한 Shallow emitter형 태양전지는 81.59%의 fill factor와 $35.52mA/cm^2$의 단락전류를 보이며 17.27%의 광변환 효율을 보였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2012.02a
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• pp.498-498
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• 2012

직류 아크 토치를 이용하여 열플라즈마를 발생시키는 방법은 전극의 구성에 따라 크게 비이송식(non-transferred)과 이송식(transferred)의 2가지 형태로 나눌 수 있다. 1950년대 H. Maecker 등에 의해 이론적 기초가 형성되기 시작한 이송식 아크 플라즈마 발생장치는 처리 대상물질을 전극으로 사용하여 양극에서의 에너지 전달을 직접 이용할 수 있으므로 열효율이 매우 높기 때문에 이를 이용한 고출력 토치에 관한 활발한 연구가 지속되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 대기압 아르곤 자유연소아크 방전에 의해 발생되는 열플라즈마의 열유동 특성을 수치적으로 해석하기 위하여 아크 기둥의 온도, 압력 및 속도 특성을 Navier-Stokes 방정식과 Maxwell 방정식을 연계 계산하였다. 또한 아크-전극 상호작용(arc-electrode interaction) 모델링을 통한 양극(anode)인 처리 대상물질로의 에너지 플럭스 유입을 고려하여 전극 내부의 온도분포를 계산하였다. 해석결과를 검증하기 위하여 음극과 양극 사이 플라즈마 기둥(column)의 중심축 온도는 Haddad & Farmer(1984)의 실험데이터와 비교하였고, 양극으로의 에너지 플럭스 및 온도분포 데이터는 Bini 등(2006)의 실험 및 해석데이터와 비교하여 만족스런 일치를 확인하였다.

• Journal of the Korean Vacuum Society
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.8-15
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• 2002

Tetrahedral amorphous carbon(ta-C) films were deposited by the filtered vacuum arc(FVA) process. The FVA process has many advantages such as high ionization ratio and the ion energy, which is suitable for dense amorphous carbon film deposition. However, the energy of the carbon ion cannot be readily controlled by manipulating the arc source parameters. In order to control the film properties in wide range, we investigated the dependence of the film properties on the substrate bias voltage. The mechanical properties and the density of the film exhibit the maximum values at about -100 V of the bias voltage. The maximum values of hardness and density were respectively 54$\pm$3 GPa and 3.6$\pm$0.4 g/㎤, which are 3 to 5 times higher than those of the films deposited by RF PACVD or ion beam process. The details of the atomic bond structure were analysed by Raman and NEXAFS spectroscopy. The change in the film properties for various bias voltages could be understood in the view of the $sp^2$ and $sp^3$ bond fraction in the deposited films.